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A U.S. Justice Department investigation has found that police in Ferguson, Missouri, have habitually violated citizens' civil rights, with black residents bearing the brunt, NBC News reported. The probe, prompted by the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson last August, uncovered a pattern of unfair traffic stops, questionable arrests, unreasonable use of force and interference with free speech, according to information provided to NBC News by a Justice Department official. Investigators also found that Ferguson's black citizens, who make up about 67 percent of the city's 21,000 residents, made up 85 percent of traffic stops, and 93 percent of all arrests from 2012 to 2014. Ferguson officials have not responded to requests for comment on the findings.
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Congress has passed legislation that will fund the Department of Homeland Security without touching President Obama's immigration actions, bringing an end to a months-long battle that threatened to shut down an...

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Congress has passed legislation that will fund the Department of Homeland Security without touching President Barack Obama's immigration actions, bringing an end to a months-long battle that threatened to shut down an agency tasked with helping protect the U.S. against terrorist threats. In a 257 to 167 vote, the House passed a "clean" Homeland Security funding bill on Tuesday without provisions that would curtail the president's executive orders on immigration. The Senate passed the legislation last week and the president's signature is certain.
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Protesters gathered Tuesday morning at the site where officers shot and killed a homeless man on Skid Row, then marched to the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters for a police commission meeting attended...

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Protesters gathered Tuesday morning at the site where officers shot and killed a homeless man on Skid Row, then marched to the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters for a police commission meeting attended by Chief Charlie Beck. A rally involving LA Community Action Network and Skid Row community members began at about 8 a.m. near Sixth and San Pedro streets, where flowers, notes and other items were left at a memorial for the slain man, known to others on Skid Row as "Africa." Protesters carried signs that read, "Stop Modern Day Lynchings," "End the Police State" and "End the Safer Cities Initiative," a community policing program.
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Georgia called off a second execution at the last minute on Tuesday because the lethal injection drugs appeared "cloudy," the state Department of Corrections said in a statement.

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Georgia called off a second execution at the last minute on Tuesday because the lethal injection drugs appeared "cloudy," the state Department of Corrections said in a statement. A day after the state delayed the execution of Kelly Gissendaner, officials also postponed the execution of Brian Terrell out of an "abundance of caution." Gissendaner was waiting to hear if the U.S. Supreme Court would have postponed her execution on Monday night when prison officials postponed it at 11 p.m. ET, citing possible drug problems. Hundreds of clergy rallied Sunday to urge courts not to execute Gissendaner, who earned a theology degree during her 18 years of incarceration.
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The families of three young men stabbed to death in last year's Isla Vista massacre are suing the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department and the apartment housing company, saying they never fully investigated...

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The families of three young men stabbed to death in last year's Isla Vista massacre are suing the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department and the apartment housing company, saying they never fully investigated gunman Elliot Rodger as a threat despite a slew of red flags. Rodger killed UC Santa Barbara students David Wang, 20, James Hong, 20, and George Chen, 19, in the apartment he shared with two of them, before he began a rampage that left three other students dead and over a dozen hurt across the seaside town of Isla Vista on May 23. All three went to high schools in either Fremont or San Jose in the Bay Area.
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In a series of incredible images captured by British amateur photographer Martin Le-May, a weasel leaps onto the back of a flying woodpecker — not for a ride, but for lunch.

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In a series of incredible images captured by British amateur photographer Martin Le-May, a weasel leaps onto the back of a flying woodpecker — not for a ride, but for lunch. As Le-May and his wife Ann watched the aerial acrobatics unfold in an east London park on Monday, they realized that "this was a struggle for life," he told ITV News. But the weasel's airborne audacity was for naught: The woodpecker managed to escape and the weasel returned to earth, hungry.
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President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered "nothing new" in his speech to Congress, suggesting that the Israeli leader failed to articulate an alternative strategy...

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President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered "nothing new" in his speech to Congress, suggesting that the Israeli leader failed to articulate a new strategy to halt Iran's attempts to make a nuclear bomb, NBC News reported. "On the core issue, which is how do we prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon which would make it far more dangerous ... the prime minister didn't offer any viable alternatives," he told reporters during an appearance with new Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. When asked about House Speaker John Boehner's decision to extend the invitation to Netanyahu without the approval of the president, Obama said that the question "should be directed to Mr. Boehner."
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A judge on Tuesday granted a defense motion suppressing some of the evidence in the case of a Massachusetts teenager charged with raping and killing his high school math teacher in 2013.
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A judge on Tuesday granted a defense motion suppressing some of the evidence in the case of a Massachusetts teenager charged with raping and killing his high school math teacher in 2013.
Among that evidence is an alleged confession Philip Chism gave to Danvers Police after the killing, as well as certain cell phone evidence police had gathered as a result of that interview.
Additional motions seeking to suppress statements made to Topsfield Police as well as evidence seized at Danvers High School and from Chism's pockets and backpack were denied by the judge.
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"The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. And we have a closer relationship with Israel right now in terms of security than at any time in history."
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California's third snow survey this winter found the Sierra Nevada snowpack is far below normal and leaning toward being the lowest on record in more than two decades.
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California's third snow survey this winter found the Sierra Nevada snowpack is far below normal and leaning toward being the lowest on record in more than two decades.
Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program, said there were 6.7 inches of snow on the ground at the survey spot on Tuesday.
The snowpack is an essential source of water for the drought-stricken state. The annual melted snow from the snowpack supplies about a third of the water needed by state residents, agriculture and industry.
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A newly-published study purports to definitively reveal the typical size of manhood spanning all ages and races, NBC News reported.

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A newly-published study purports to definitively reveal the typical size of manhood spanning all ages and races, NBC News reported. The typical length of mean length of an erection is 5.16 inches, according to a paper titled "Am I Normal?" published Tuesday in the British Journal of Urology. But even then experts were quick to dispute the notion that bigger is better. "Some men that have a smaller penis size are much more confident in their love making, find different positions or motions that actually give a lot more stimulation," a psychiatrist who focuses on sex therapy told NBC News. The new study analyzed 20 previous research projects — encompassing 15,521 men in total — to definitively determine the typical size.
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The lone survivor of an apparent drug-related kidnapping that left two brothers dead in a Philadelphia river says he was trying to raise $100,000 for them "as a favor" when they were killed. The survivor says the three men were stabbed, beaten and bound before they were thrown in the Schuylkill River last August. Voong is testifying at a preliminary hearing Tuesday for 42-year-old murder suspect Tam Le.
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Virginia mom of three Brooke Taheri opted to spend her Valentine’s Day working on her taxes, never imagining the holiday could get any less romantic. Then she discovered her identity had been stolen.
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A flight passenger was found hiding inside the cockpit of a JetBlue airplane that landed in New York from the Dominican Republic early Tuesday after everyone else had exited the plane, authorities say.
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A flight passenger was found hiding inside the cockpit of a JetBlue airplane that landed in New York from the Dominican Republic early Tuesday after everyone else had exited the plane, authorities say.
The JetBlue ground crew found the 26-year-old New Jersey man hiding in the cockpit after the flight landed just before 2 a.m., according to the Port Authority. He was sitting by the window in the cockpit.
The man was a customer who failed to get off the plane after it landed at about 1:30 a.m., according to JetBlue.
While he was being taken off the plane, the man opened an alarm door but he never made it through or got away from the airline workers escorting him off, authorities said.
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